Mohammed Omer, Gaza photojournalist roughed up by Shin Bet If you're an award-winning Gaza journalist, the Shin Bet has a message for you: get out and don't come back. Inter-Press Service photographer Mohammed Omer just won the distinguished Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London. He traveled to Jordan on his way home and stopped to coordinate … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2008
Burner Warned Off J Street
Matt Stoller at Open Left reports that Seattle area Congressional candidate Darcy Burner told him that she received a phone call from an AIPAC representative warning her against accepting an endorsement from J Street, the dovish American-Jewish peace lobby: Darcy Burner...told me that she got a call from people affiliated with the conservative Jewish … [Read more...]
Laura Rozen’s Iran MoJo Convo: Will Bush or Olmert Drop the Big One?
Do you wake up in a cold sweat at night wondering whether George Bush or Ehud Olmert will drop the big one on Nantanz and what the implications will be for the rest of us? If so, Mother Jones' Laura Rozen is the answer to your prayers. She has put together an interesting collection of Iran experts and posed the question: will Israel or the U.S. attack … [Read more...]
Malcolm Hoenlein to Iranians: ‘We Come in Peace, Earthlings’
Malcolm Hoenlein delivered a strange video address to the people of Iran recently which you'll find on YouTube. It reminds me a little of those old science fiction movies in which the president makes a television address to invading Martians telling them that we are a peaceful people and wish them no harm. This is one bizarre performance. After thinking … [Read more...]